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When we think of people that abuse drugs, we rarely look at them as the sort of folk that are deserving of our pity. We think that they are the ones responsible for their own lives and as a result of this fact they should be treated like criminals. However, a lot of research that has been recently conducted has revealed that drug addiction needs to be taken a great deal more seriously than it has been so far. For one thing, we need to stop treating it like a criminal issue and start treating it like an epidemic.

To start off with, one of the biggest factors that impact people that end up getting addicted to drugs is something known as addictive tendencies. People that have more addictive tendencies than others are disproportionately more likely to get addicted to drugs. This means that such people need to be treated for their addiction rather than being thrown into jail for something that they did not have as much control over as people seemed to think. Criminalizing drug abuse may seem like an appropriate solution initially, but at the end of the day it is going to cause a lot more problems than it would end up fixing.

This is because you are going to be placing drug abusers in a system that would turn them into hardened criminals. Chances are that their drug addiction is not going to get fully treated and that when they reenter the world they are going to end up falling back into their own ways. Hence, it is pretty clear that criminalizing drug abuse in this manner is going to make it a great deal more difficult for the government to handle the drug addiction epidemic on a larger scale.

However, it is very important to note that this is not calling for the legalization of hard drugs. Instead, hard drugs should simply be decriminalized because it seems like a far more efficient way to tackle the problem at hand. It would also save a lot of taxpayer’s dollars because of the fact that it would make it unnecessary for police officers to spend thousands of man hours on tackling drug abusers. It is also important to note that decriminalizing drug abuse does not mean that drug dealers are no longer going to be prosecuted. These individuals profit off of some of the weakest members of society and they certainly deserve to be punished as much as possible.

That being said, people that abuse drugs often come from impoverished backgrounds that make it difficult for them to escape the cycle of drug abuse that they are currently trapped in. Hence, the decriminalization of hard drugs is going to be step in the right direction for the lower classes and would help raise them a bit higher up, thus enabling them to make the most of their situation and see a little more upward mobility in their social circles.

We have all heard of kids that are stuck to their phones and we often refer to this as an addiction, but is it possible that internet addiction is the sort of thing that would end up becoming as serious as dependence on an actual chemical substance? A lot of research has been conducted into the matter and the discovery that has been made is that internet addiction is actually a very real thing, and it contributes a significant amount to the health concerns that young people are going through at the moment.

When you get addicted to a drug, one of the first things in your body that changes is neural pathways. Healthy pathways are released and new pathways form that are more conducive to the pleasure receptors in your brain. This change in your brain can result in a lot of cognitive impairment, and one of the most common results of this is that emotional imbalances become a great deal more common. When you consider the fact that the current generation is becoming so much more mentally ill than the last, such things start to make a lot more sense.

One thing to understand about internet addiction is that it is about a lot of different factors. It’s not just the act of going on the internet that’s addictive, it’s all of the other things involved as well. There are a lot of stimuli that you are going to experience while you are on the internet. You are going to feel the keyboard underneath you as you type, you will smell your computer, you will hear the various sounds that come from the websites you visit, you will also get a lot of visual stimulation of course. All of these things form an important part of your internet addiction overall. Hence, it is very possible that you are dreadfully addicted to the internet and just have no idea, and in a few years you are going to start noticing the negative health connotations of such a phenomenon.

There are a lot of questions you can ask yourself in order to ascertain whether or not you are actually addicted to the internet. For example, you can see how you feel if you avoid the internet for a little while. Do you feel uncomfortable or agitated? If so, chances are that you are addicted. Another thing that you can think about is whether or not you use the internet to hide from your problems. Kids that come from abusive homes often disappear into the internet for hours so that they are able to avoid the abuse that they have to face every single day. If you use the internet in this manner, addiction is inevitable.

It is quite clear that a lot of effort has to be put into researching ways to treat internet addiction. There is a big chance that it will become the biggest epidemic of our time.

The drug epidemic comes from a lot of different places, but one of the biggest influencers in terms of making drugs seem like an okay thing to do are video games. A lot of the time, video games depict drugs as being the sort of things that can help your characters move forward and become more powerful. They are seen as power ups that can potentially provide you with a lot of benefits that would eventually go on to help you finish the game, something that you would certainly want to do.

What games don’t depict is how destructive drugs can be. It’s true, drugs can make you feel quite good for a time but then they are going to end up doing a lot of harm in a lot of ways. Apart from the fact that you are going to end up destroying your health, you would end up spending a lot of money in order to fund your addiction, something that is going to wreak havoc in your life overall. Since games never show this, kids end up thinking that everything is going to be okay when they are first faced with drugs.

What makes things even more dangerous is the fact that about two thirds of the games that depict drug use end up showing actual drugs that exist in the real world which helps make them seem a lot less dangerous than they actually are. Additionally, the rest of the games that depict fictional drugs don’t do all that much to mask the effects, making the drugs depicted poorly veiled knock offs of real life drugs that actually destroy people’s lives.

One example of a game that shows drugs and drug addiction in a more or less positive light is Max Payne. The titular character is addicted to painkillers, and you can use painkillers to replenish your health. Kids that would be playing this game are going to be influenced by this sort of behavior, because the game depicts its protagonist as some sort of tireless avenger that is able to wreak all kinds of havoc due to the pills that he is taking without suffering any kinds of consequences whatsoever. In reality, his body would be a great deal weaker because of his addiction, but of course that would not make for a very fun game.

It is high time that video game developers start being held accountable for the activities that are featured in their games. Of course, games depict fiction but disclaimers and the like are necessary if so much drug abuse is being depicted. Additionally, the government needs to invest a lot more in educating kids about how drugs can mess up their lives and show them how dangerous they truly are. Parents also have to put a great deal of effort into monitoring the games their kids are playing and telling them when something wrong is happening.